Chapter 108: The Problem of Planning
“…… That's about it. Renault gave a rough overview of his plan, "Is there a problem?" ”
"I still feel a little risky." Yang Yi expressed his concern, "If we can't bring the troops together, our troops will easily suffer against the Star Spirits. ”
"There's no way around it, the Star Spirit's quick reaction force is faster than we expected. That's the only way I can think of at the moment. ”
Renault's method is also very simple, it is a very simple way to break through at the same time, using the advantage that although the star spirit has a high quality of individual soldiers, but the number is far less than that of humans, Yang Yi's troops are responsible for the main landing area, and Renault's troops and Behemoth's swarm try to break through in other directions of the planet, so that Tadarin cannot distinguish the direction of the main attack and cannot send troops to the direction of the main attack.
Due to the fact that Tadarin's Rapid Reaction Force is much faster than normal human speeds, and the ability to use portals to jump back and forth between bases, the chosen landing locations are located far away from Tadarin's base, in the wilderness of Ciel. In order to ensure that the landing unit can quickly establish a defensive position that can withstand Tadarin's forces, they deliberately chose some terrain suitable for blocking, including mountains and hills, as well as some rifts.
However, the problem with this is to prevent the Astral Spirit forces from being able to eliminate soldiers in one location and then quickly reach another location to encircle and suppress them, and the distance between the various landing sites is relatively far from each other, and they cannot effectively support each other. As a result, these landing forces were in relative isolation until the next reinforcements arrived after the landing zone was established. The only thing they can rely on is themselves.
He originally planned to let Hydra follow him and land with the landing force at the main attack point, but the progress of Hydra's transformation was still slow, and this operation was out of her way. Yang Yi can only hope that he and Renault's troops can fight for breath.
Schill's problem made him feel more and more that the ground forces were in trouble, and their main obstacle was that it was difficult to build an effective defensive position to deal with the enemy's rapid response forces before the enemy counterattacked in the early stage of landing. Neither the Swarm nor Tadarin had been effective enough to react quickly, but Schill's battle really exposed the problem.
In fact, the main reason is that there are too few troops that can be sent to the ground at one time. They can project at most one reinforced company at a time, ranging from one hundred to three hundred. If there are too many airdrop capsules, first, it is easy for the landing force to find a command unit for rendezvous, and on the other hand, the target is too large, and the ground orbital defense force and anti-aircraft fire are more likely to hit the airdrop troops, and the losses may be greater than before.
How to deploy the most combat-ready units within a strength of 100 to 300 men is also one of the main topics that the Imperial Marines have been studying for a long time. In the Astral Spirits there are portals, and the Aliens have the Tunnel Worms, which can quickly transport troops between different areas, and they must have the ability to establish a sufficiently effective defensive position in a short period of time.
After establishing a solid position on the ground, it is time to organize the troops to move forward. Previously, the location of the Mobius expedition was a very desirable mining location, but the problem was that it had already been taken by Tadarin. They had to clear it, take that place, and get the Draken laser rig over and assemble it.
The problem was that the components of the Draken laser rig were too large for their existing transport aircraft to transport, so they had to land the Titan-class migrant ship in Mobius with the components, and then have the SCV unload the equipment and assemble it on site. However, the length of a standard Titan-class emigrant ship is about 500 meters, which is about the same as a standard Behemoth-class battlecruiser, which is not something that can be accommodated in a simple temporary landing area.
The Mobius Foundation has not been able to give a good solution to this problem, and the Mobius Expedition had to build a front-line starport before reluctantly letting a hired Titan-class migrant ship land and unload. But at that time, the expedition team did not face any threat, of course, they could build a frontline starport in a good way, but they had to repair this thing under the threat of Tadarin......
As for the starport of Morbius, there is definitely no hope, the main buildings of the entire Morbius Expedition base have been demolished by Tadarin, and they only chose it because it is indeed a good location for the base to build.
It is very dangerous for a large ship such as the Titan-class immigrant ship to land in the combat area, due to its large size, and the fact that the base itself is also on the front line, and the distance from the Tadarin base where the temple is located is also very close, it is very likely to encounter anti-aircraft fire in the Tadarin base during landing.
"Build a starport platform for large capital ships to take off and land under Tadarin's nose......" he looked at the battle plan, and the corners of his mouth twitched, "We can really do anything unlucky." ”
"At least it's better than no solution. Tadarin's Death Fleet is what we should be most worried about right now, Commander. ”
If the Draken laser rig still has a solution, Tadarin's Death Fleet, as a thorn in his heart all along, has never had a good solution.
Although the Death Fleet was always late, that didn't mean he could rest assured. God knows if the Death Fleet will suddenly jump out on this mission and directly surround them from the outside and open fire on them.
The worry was always there, but he never had a good solution. The only one capable of fighting the Death Fleet at the moment is the combination of Gabehemoth, the Pride of Ortaris. The Pride of Ortaris has the most basic railgun, which is the basic function of the ship's hull after the repair, this thing was originally intended to be used for orbital strikes, but other human ships can also perform orbital strikes, and there is no need for the Pride of Ortaris to risk being found to do this.
But for now, the Pride of Ortaris's railgun is the only weapon capable of penetrating the Tadarin Mothership, and he can only rely on it. Behemoth's role is to simply release the swarm and delay the time, as long as it can be until the Pride of Ortaris has beaten the Death Fleet to retreat - but everyone knows that this is impossible.
"So you have to withdraw first? So what if Draken only half unloaded? ”
"Then we'll have to abandon the car and protect the commander, Commander."
“…… It's really unlucky. ”